By introducing eye care at your doorstep service, we ensure that a daycare cataract surgery for your loved ones at home need not wait until your next vacation.

1. healthFIRST
eyecare at your doorstep
in Cochin
e-mail:
appointments@alexandereyecentre.com
www.healthfirsthospitals.com

2. eyecare at your doorstep
At healthFIRST we understand the impact
of hectic schedules on your time, vacations
and care of aged parents.
By introducing eye care at your doorstep
service, we ensure that a daycare cataract
surgery for your loved ones at home need not
wait until your next vacation.
To provide the gift of sight to your loved
ones, get started now !!!
appointments@alexandereyecentre.com
www.healthfirsthospitals.com

3. eyecare at your doorstep
Transfer of the patient from
home in towns around
1.Contact Cochin by a health FIRST
7.Update patient hostess in our ambulance or
2.Schedule A/C car
NRI sponsor
of outcome hospital visit Cataract surgery at our
Cochin hospital - Alexander
Eye Centre
healthFIRST
Discussion with sponsor to
finalize the process/rates
hospital 3.Connect
6.Surgeon (cataract surgery options from
hostess with sponsor Rs 7500 )
to perform
to schedule surgery
surgery Email/SMS notification to the
surgery sponsor on
completion of surgery
5. Transfer patient 4.Assist with Patient is dropped back
to hospital medical home the same day
for surgery fitness exams Cashless insurance
payments for card holders of
insurance companies
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4. eyecare at your doorstep – care management
process
Engage Assess Enable Care
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 (+)
Transfer patient from
• Communicate • Transfer patient to home to hospital on
regularly with patient hospital for detailed
day of surgery
and NRI sponsor surgical assessment
• Conduct preliminary • Drop patient back at Perform surgery
telephonic interview residence after
assessment SMS/email update of
• Provide web outcome to sponsor
conference/calls with • Email/phone NRI
surgeon sponsor regarding Transfer back home
procedure and fees same day
• Provide regular
email/SMS updates • Schedule pre surgical
Post operative follow
check up and
up via daily telephone
medical fitness tests
calls
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5. About Alexander Eye Centre
• Recent acquisition of healthFIRST Hospital Network
• Founded by Prof. Dr.T.A.Alexander, MD,DO
– Fellowship in Retina, Univ.Sydney, Former Professor – CMC Vellore
• 15 years in operation
• 2,25,000 patients,15,000 surgeries to date
• 15,000 patients,1000 surgeries per year
• Centrally located at Padivattom,Kochi
• Website: www.alexandereyecentre.com
www.healthfirsthospitals.com

6. www.healthfirsthospitals.com

7. Consultants
Prof. Dr.T.A.Alexander – MD,DO
Fellowship in Retina, Univ.Sydney, Former
Professor – CMC Vellore
Dr.Devin Prabhakar – MS,DO,DNB,
MNAMS,FRCS
Glaucoma Training RVI, UK; Cataract Fellow,
Sankara Netralaya
Dr.Noy Thoppil,
DOMS,DNB,FICS,FIMR
Dr.Reshmi. B – MBBS , DNB
Dr.Manuel John – MS,DO,DNB
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8. Services
►Key Hole Cataract Surgery ►Diabetic Eyecare
►Glaucoma screening, ►Computer Vision
lasers & surgery Syndrome consultation
►Routine Eye examination ►Paediatric Eye Care
►Contact lens Clinic ►ENT Clinic
►Corneal consultation ►Headache clinic
►Retinal Consultation and ►Artificial eye clinic
Surgery ►Modern Operation
►Refractive Surgery Theaters
►Attached Optical shop
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9. Equipment/Infrastructure
• IRIS Green/ Yag Lasers • State of the art operation
• Carl Ziess OCT theaters with back up theater
• Carl Ziess HFA • Centrally located at Padivattom
• Carl Ziess DFFA • Reserved parking spaces for
• Slit Lamp microscope patients
• Topcon Operating Microscope • Power back up and generator
• Biomedix Phacoemulsifier
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10. About healthFIRST Hospital Network
healthFIRST Hospital Network is run by a group of physicians and healthcare
management professionals with extensive experience in the global healthcare
services industry, especially in US,UK and India. Management profiles are
included below
US based physician executive with over 15 years experience in global
healthcare management consulting and technology
UK/US trained ophthalmic surgeon /entrepreneur with 10 + years of
experience
US based biotechnology executive associated with US Department of
Veterans Affairs
Boston based global media marketing consultant
India based ophthalmic surgeon with 10 + years experience
US based physician employed with a 500 bed healthcare facility
Hospital Administrator trained with Arvind Eye hospital
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11. Centres of Excellence/ Project Pipeline
• Six Ophthalmology Centres of Excellence by 2010
– one Centre under operation since Sep 2009 @ Cochin
– two affiliate centres in operation @ Trivandrum
– 5 CoEs in Kerala – 2010
– one CoE in Punjab -2010
• 200 bed mutli-speciality hospital in Kerala-2012
• Mix of green field and brown field projects
– in various stages of acquisition/negotiations/commissioning
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12. Contact
e-mail:
appointments@alexandereyecentre.com
websites
www.alexandereyecentre.com
www.healthfirsthospitals.com
www.healthfirsthospitals.com